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I read about this on Pirillo’s Picks… Send To Toys is an enhancement of the Send To system menu. – Send To Toys Control Panel Applet allows you to manage the Send To system menu content, and configure the various Send To Toys settings. – “Add to Send To menu” and “Remove from Send To …
From the New York Times: Jett Lucas, a 14-year-old friend, tells me the kids in his middle school send one other a steady stream of instant messages through the day. But there’s a problem. “Kids will say things to each other in their messages that are too embarrassing to say in person,” Jett tells me. …
Photoshop Lightroom, the much anticipated new software from Adobe is now available for purchase from the Adobe Store. Developed for professional photographers who need to manage and adjust large volumes of photographs, Lightroom allows quick and easy adjustment to a large number of images from a variety of formats. Watch here for review of Adobe …
From TechRepublic: It’s no secret that the servers behind every Web 2.0 company, bank Internet site and corporate e-mail system are consuming ever larger amounts of power. But now a Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory study to be released Thursday has quantified exactly how much. Servers in the United States and their attendant cooling systems consumed …
From BusinessWeek: The pressure on Google to institute more aggressive copyright protections and policies is mounting. The latest heat emanates from social-networking site MySpace, which announced Feb. 12 that it is expanding the use of audio screening technology to block the uploading of unlicensed videos to its site. The company already uses “fingerprinting” technology licensed …
I read on Ken Jennings’ Blog about a site that reviews Trivial Pursuit questions and summarizes their accuracy. That final percentage in the lower-left corner of this table tells the amazing story… over 95% of Trivial Pursuit’s original questions are still accurate 25 years later! Impressive. If you are into trivia, you should definitely check …
Regular reader Pat sent along a link to some file conversion utilities: Ever get that need to convert a file and you don’t have the software to do the job? There are two sites that I have been using, and are quite handy. One is Pixer.us, and the other one is Zamzar.com. Pixer.us let’s you …
From PC Magazine: Most software is expensive and bloated. Yet free software typically does one task and does it with precision and elegance. Among the thousands of free apps available on the Web, how do you find the best, most reliable ones for your needs? To produce this story, we asked PC Magazine staffers to …
From USA Today: The topic of data protection stole the show at the RSA Conference on computer security here this week. Identity theft and corporate espionage were dominant themes among the 15,000 attendees. And with good reason. Data are the new currency of the Internet age for legitimate — and illegitimate — businesses, says Howard …
Create your own Wheel of Fortune style word puzzle at Atom Smasher: I read about this on Google Blogoscoped.